Where Do Kisses Come From?

I never thought much about kissing and where it came from until I started working at The Kinsey Institute years ago and came across an exhibit catalog from an old exhibit they'd featured all about the kiss. It was beautiful - and interesting, should you have a chance to come across a copy of the catalog.

Now there's a new and much longer book out called "The Science of Kissing: What Our Lips Are Telling Us" that aims to explore where kisses come from and why most humans kiss around the world. Kissing isn't common in all cultures, but it is in most. Even those that don't kiss lip to lip seem to mostly kiss in other ways. Babies kiss and even some animals seem to kiss.

Food for thought for the next time you rest your parted lips on your beloved.

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